Car-axle lubricator.



PATENTED AUG. 21, 1906.

J. A. KENNEDY. CAR AXLE LUBRIOATOR.

APPLIGATION FILED NOV 4. 1905.

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JAMES A. KENNEDY, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

CAR-AXLE LUBRICATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented Aug.21,1906

Application filed November 4, 1905. Serial No. 285,806.

To all w/mnt (It may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES A. KENNEDY, a citizen of the United States, residin at Kansas City, in the county of Wyam otte and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Axle Lubricators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car axle lubricators; and the prime object is to produce a lubricating attachment which can be conveniently applied in operative position in the cellars commonl used that is to say, commonly used for t 1e driving, trailer, and truck axles.

To this end the invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and or anization, as hereinafter described and c aimed, and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a central vertical longitudinal section of a cellar equipped with lubricator attachments embodying my invention and showing the same in operative relation to one end of a ear-axle. Fig. 2 is a detail top lan view of the attachment with the wic ing omitted Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the frame of the attachment which supports the wick-carrier.

In the said drawings, 1 indicates the hub portion of a wheel mounted on the axle 2. 3 indicates the cellar, the same fitting around the enlarged portion 4 of the axle and against the outer side of the hub 1. The opposite or outer end wall of the cellar fits loosely around the reduced portion of the axle and is bifurcated, as at 5, to receive the dustuard 6, fitting snugly around the lower haf of the axle and held yieldingly thereagainst by the upward pressure of spring 7, interposed be tween the bottom of said dust-guard and the cellar. The parts thus far described are of common and well-known construction, and to them per 86 no claim is made.

The skeleton frame consists of the parallel side bars 8 8, connected by cross-bars 9 9, the connection preferably establishing a rigid relation between the parts, so that the frame shall be permanently rectangular. In some instances, where the axles roject a greater distance than usual beyond the hubs of the wheels and where the cellars consequently are of correspondim length, one of the bars 9 will be at one end. bars 8 and the other will be disposed some distance inward of the other ends of said bars, as shown in Fig. 3, and projecting rigidly upward from the rectan ular frame inward of the end bars by pre erence are posts 10 for the support and guidance, as hereinafter explained, of the wick-carrier. Where one of the bars 9 is disposed a substantial distance inward from the contiguous ends of bars 8, as above suggested, said projecting ends of the bars 8 will likewise be provided with upwardly-projecting posts 11, dis )osed rectangularly with relation to each other and adapted for the support of a second wick-carrier identical in construction with the first except in point of size. The carriers consist of a air of end bars 12, terminating in vertically-bored heads 13 and side bars 14, connectin the end bars at opposite sides of and equal distances from the center thereof, so as to provide a central longitudinal slot 15, said side bars being provided with outwardly and up wardly projecting curved flanges 16. 17 indicates removable cross-pins carried by the side bars for the purpose of securing the wick 18 at the proper adjustment in slot 15. Full details of the construction of the wick-carrier are unnecessary, because said wick-carriers are common and well known in the art.

19 indicates expansive coil-springs mounted on the )osts 10 and 11 for the purpose of holding the wick-carriers upward with a yielding pressure.

In practice the attachment or skeleton frame is first placed in and upon the bottom of the cellar. The sprin s are then placed upon the pins and the wic (-carriers equipped with the wicks are slipped upon the upper ends of the pins. The cellar is then charged with the requisite quantity of oil and is secured in proper relation with the journal, as shown in Fi 1, so that the upper end of the wicking sha l engage the journal and supply oil thereto b r capillary attraction. If the axle is of sucli proportion that the enlarged portion 4 is of fair length, it is desirable to employ the frame provided. with two wickcarriers, and consequently with two sets of pins 10 and 11, in order that oil shall be supplied to said enlarged portion of the axle, and conse uently lubricate the outer face of the hub w ere it comes in contact with the inner end. of the cellar. If the axle is not of such proportion as to necessitate the supplemental or small wick-holder, the frame shown in Fig. 3 need be provided with only one set of posts-viz., posts 10and the cross-bars 9 IIO will both be at or near the ends of bars 8, it being understood in this connection that the frame need not be r0 ortionatel Y as long as shown in Fig. 3. f t 1e shorter ranie is not available, but is necessary, that ortion of bars 8 equipped with posts 11 can e cut off.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have reduced a cheap, strong, and durable frame for the support of springs and wick-carriers of the character shown and described which can be easily and quickly placed in operative position in a cellar.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The improved car-axle lubricator herein described and shown comprising a cellar, a

skeleton frame resting on the bottom of the cellar and consisting of flat side bars and flat cross-bars rigidly connecting said side bars, posts rising vertically from the side bars of said frame, end bars terminating in verticallybored heads which engage over the said. posts, springs coiled around the posts and bearing upward against the said heads, side bars secured to and connecting said end bars and provided with outwardly and upwardly projecting curved longitudinal flanges, and a wick secured between said. side bars and depending to the bottom of the cellar.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES A. KENNEDY. Witnesses:

JOHN G. SCHAICII, Jr. G. Y. THoRPE. 

